NIAID’s Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all ...

Their mission: to discover exactly how Ebola is transmitted to human beings. Towner had chosen as his team’s base the Hotel Starlight in Karaguuza, in Kibaale district, a fertile and undeveloped ...

Monkeys infected with Ebola can be cured with a pill, according to a new study out Friday that could pave the way for more practical, affordable treatments in humans.

A team of scientists has uncovered the remarkable potential of a human antibody, mAb 3A6, in fighting Ebola virus infections.

"We didn't know what it was. We had never experienced an infectious disease of such intensity," former president Ellen ...

4. Gaps in scientists’ understanding of how Ebola kills Ebola remains mysterious. It is unbelievably aggressive in the human body, but scientists still don’t understand all the virus’s ...

Since 1976, there have been about 30 recorded Ebola outbreaks that have infected humans. Note the long periods of inactivity, including a thirteen year stretch between 1980 and 1993. CDC / WHO ...

Before 2014, most Ebola outbreaks occurred in relatively rural areas on the African continent. These outbreaks are believed to have started from human contact with an infected animal and were then ...

Ebola virus, being highly pathogenic for humans and non-human primates and the subject of former weapons programmes, is now one of the most feared pathogens worldwide. In addition, the lack of pre ...